Infectious Diseases Flashcards
Mono typically causes what LAD?
Posterior cervical LAD
What is used to treat rosacea?
Metronidazole
Localized facial erythema with/without pustules and papules
Histoplasmosis presentations (mild to severe)
Mild: Pulmonary + mediastinal LAD
Severe: Hepatosplenomegaly with diffuse LAD
Vomiting after foodborne preformed toxin occurs when?
Within 6 hours (not 36 hrs)
Tinea versicolor treatment
Topical ketoconazole, terbinafine, selenium sulfide
Complications of malaria
Children - cerebral malaria: Seizure, coma, hypoglycemia, metabolic acidosis
Adults: Jaundice, acute renal failure, acute pulmonary edema
What are additional complications of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)? What labs?
Encephalitis, pulmonary edema, bleeding, shock
Severe abdominal pain
Low platelets, hyponatremia, higher AST/ALT
Hidradenitis suppurativa - treatment
Mild: Topical clindamycin
Moderate: Oral tetracyclines
Severe: TNF-a inhibitors, oral retinoids, surgical excision
Asplenic adult patients should receive what vaccines? When should they receive them?
Pneumococcal (PCV20 or PCV15 + PPSV23); Hib (1 dose); Meningococcal (quad and sero B, q5years)
> =14d before or after the splenectomy
Candidemia - treatment
- Empiric antifungal (typically echinocandins first-line)
- Source control
- Evaluation for metastatic infection: ophthalmic, echocardiography
Utility of galactomannan, beta-D-glucan
Galactomannan: Aspergillus cell wall
Beta-D-glucan: sensitive (but not specific) for yeast infections
Organ transplant CMV affects which organ system most? Dx? Treatment?
GI - colitis/enteritis with multiple large shallow ulcers- fever, malaise, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain
Dx gold standard is biopsy of affected organ
Atypical lymphocytes on blood smear
Treat with ganciclovir and reduction of immunosuppression
Organ transplant herpes simplex-1 reactivation organ systems
Tracheobronchitis, esophagitis, pneumonia, and/or hepatitis
What is the most common cause of purulent pericaditis?
S. aureus from hematogenous spread; increased risk from chronic hemodialysis
Acute lymphangitis
Injection drug use inoculates skin flora into subcutaneous tissue
Sx: Tender red streaks up lymphatic channels with painful, swollen, erythematous regional lymphadnitis
Beta-D-glucan antigen
Rapid indicator of possible fungal infection (e.g. Candida)
Most common causes of catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI)
- Coagulase-negative staph (e.g. S. epidermidis)
- S. aureus
- Enterococcus
- Candida
Draw 2 sets of blood cultures (1 from catheter, 1 from peripheral site) - differentiates contamination from true infection
Typical acute bacterial prostatitis antibiotics
E coli, Proteus:
1. Fluoroquinolone
2. Bactrim
Do this for 6 weeks
Echinococcus granulosus appears how on CT?
Thin-walled, septated lesions, occasionally with calcifications
Contracted from infected sheep or canines
Pulmonary histoplasmosis - chest x-ray
Healed granulomas (calcified)
Hilar lymphadenopathy
What virus can lead to toxic megacolon in immunocompromised patients?
CMV (cytomegalovirus colitis)
Treat with ganciclovir
Hydatid cyst appearance on CT; treatment
Large cyst with “eggshell” calcification, along with daughter cysts (internal septations)
Small cysts (<5 cm): Albendazole
Large cysts: Percutaneous therapy or surgery (watch for anaphylactic shock)
Cysticercosis - bug, location
Taenia solium
Cysts in brain or muscle
Uncomplicated parapneumonic effusion vs complicated vs empyema
Uncomplicated: Sterile exudate
Complicated: Bacterial invasion, moderate-large fluid, flowing or loculated, pH <7.2, glucose <60, WBC >50,000, LDH >1,000
Empyema: Frank pus in pleural space; bacteria positive on Gram stain
Which bacteria for most deep puncture wounds?
- S. aureus
- Pseudomonas
Antibiotics for anaerobic lung abscess
Zosyn
Carbapenem
Clindamycin (if beta-lactam allergy due to C diff risk)
Sydenham chorea - signs, tests
Chorea, hypotonia, behavioral changes
Motor and psychiatric symptoms tend to wax/wane
Disappear during sleep
Group A strep testing + antistreptolysin O and anti-DNAse B titers
What evaluation should all patients with bacterial meningitis receive before discharge?
Audiologic testing for hearing deficits - can result from inflammatory damage to cochlea
Cochlear ossification from fibrosis makes implantation surgery more difficult and outcomes poorer
Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis treatment
Voriconazole iv 1-2 weeks + caspofungin (an echinocandin), then prolonged oral voriconazole
Chikungunya - notable symptoms
Severe polyarthralgia (beginning in feet and hands) - Up to 70% develop chronic arthralgia/arthritis that lasts months/years - may require methotrexate
High fever, maculopapular rash, conjunctivitis
Lymphopenia, thrombocytopenia, transaminitis
Molluscum contagiosum treatments
- Cryotherapy
- Curettage
- Topical (eg cantharidin)
Type of infection based on time since transplant
<1 month: bacterial infection from surgery
1-6 months: opportunistic infections
>6 months: typical community acquired pathogens
Disseminated histoplasmosis treatment
IV amphotericin B (fungicidal) 1-2 weeks, then itraconazole (fungistatic) 1 year
JC virus on CT brain
Nonenhancing, asymmetric, white matter lessons without edema
Granuloma with narrow-based budding yeast
Histoplasmosis
(Coccidioidomycosis would be spherules with endospores, unilateral lung)
Candidal onychomycosis is least frequent in which part?
Toenails - most likely Trichophyton rubrum
High-dose iv acyclovir concerns
Poor urine solubility, crystal formation in renal tubules and AKI
Give iv fluids and loop diuretic to flush
When is clindamycin used in context of pulmonary ID?
Anaerobes or penicillin allergy with lung abscess or aspiration pneumonia
AIDS esophageal infection - organisms and management
- Candida - mild pain and concurrent oral thrush - oral fluconazole
- HSV - well-circumscribed lesions with round/ovoid, “volcano-like” appearance, and ballooning degeneration and eosinophilic intranuclear inclusions - acyclovir
- CMV - large, linear ulcerations in distal esophagus with intranuclear/intracytoplasmic inclusions - ganciclovir
Is HIV adenopathy painful or not?
Not painful, unlike mono
Rat-bite fever
Flu-like illness with diffuse maculopapular rash and arthralgia
Q fever
Tick-borne Coxiella burnetii, pleomorphic rod
Prolonged flu-like illness
Maculopapular rash
What else is transmitted by scratch besides Bartonella?
Pasteurella multocida - both are gram-negative coccobacilli
Bartonella causes papule and tender lymphadenopathy
Pasteurella causes cellulitis and lymphangitis
Tularemia vs others
Tularemia has ULCERATING papule with central eschar and tender regional lymphadenitis
Sporothrix may ulcerate but is not painful
Does Q fever produce lymphadenopathy?
No
Does rat bite fever cause lymphadenopathy?
No
Hep C - extrahepatic manifestations
Derm: Porphyria cutanea tarda, lichen planus
Renal: Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
Hematologic: Mixed cryoglobulinemia, ITP, AIHA
Isoniazid heme concern
Pyridoxine antagonist -> acquired sideroblastic anemia presenting as microcytic hypochromic anemia (dimorphic RBCs)
Unlike IDA, iron and TIBC may be normal or other direction
Give pyridoxine
Causes of false positive nontreponemal test
Pregnancy, HIV, IV drug use, liver disease, autoimmune
What infection can lead to toxic epidermal necrolysis
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Bed bugs vs scabies
Bed bugs: linear tracks in exposed areas; palms not involved since skin too thick
Scabies: extensive excoriations and linear burrows, involves palm and web spaces, flexor wrists and extensor elbows, can develop pustules and wheals